A poem of the Nothern Song Dynasty. The poem expresses the poet’s frustration and sorrows of how his political career has ended during his later years, and can also be said to express the suffering of decaying in one’s later years. The first two lines linking the overview of the city and the view down in the city, describes a rich dynamic that depicts the spring scenery. He sketches out the magnificent scene over the city, yet below in the city, he sketches out a scene of vastness, an image of spring water washing ashore. Allowing the reader to sense the looming gloom of the poet’s spring sorrows.

Spring is a time that makes one reminisce their times of pride, faced with such beautiful scenery, the poet has once experienced being in a high official position, but in contrast, spring time only pulls out those memories that he is not proud off, thus adding more suffering to the pain before him. The line “When will the green willow [that is] like endlessly fragrant grass subside?” expresses his desperation in wanting this hateful spring period to pass by as he now continues to drink to forget.